Brown Bridge, Spanning Cold River, Upper Cold River Road, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, VT
Summary
Significance: Brown Bridge is one of the best-designed examples of the Town lattice truss, a widely used style of timber bridge framing. It is also notable as the last bridge by Nichols M. Powers of Clarendon, one of Vermont's best-known bridge builders.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N984
Survey number: HAER VT-28
Building/structure dates: 1880 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000250
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Powers, Nichols M
Town, Ithiel
Streeter, George
Lloyd, R
Plumley, F M
Knight, A
Gleason, Charles
Wilcox, H W
Chaplin, G W
DM White & Co
Marston, Christopher, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Federal Highway Administration, sponsor
Location
Shrewsbury, 43.55244, -72.87447
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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